Performance / Tour News

2009 Winter Jazzfest | 01.10 | NYC

Source: JamBase
January 29, 2009

2009 Winter Jazzfest | 01.10.09 | New York City

Saturday, January 10 marked the 5th annual Winter Jazzfest here in NYC. The Festival is held the same weekend as the Association of Performing Arts Presenters conference and is aimed mainly at those attendees, although tickets were also available to the public. This year the event was spread over three venues; Sullivan Hall, Kenny's Castaways and Le Poisson Rouge, with music going from 6 p.m. until 4 a.m. With all that ...

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Jazz at Massey Hall: Eyewitness

Source: JazzWax by Marc Myers
January 29, 2009

As readers of this blog know, JazzWax is read daily by jazz fans worldwide. For a humble writer like me, it's exhilarating to know that without paper, ink, a printing press, postage, a fulfillment department, marketers or postal workers, I can connect with so many of you online in the U.S., Spain, Portugal, France, Costa Rica, Brazil, Japan and other countries and share my interests. It's also a thrill to receive emails from friends I've never met. [Photo of Charlie ...

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Raging Free Jazz Drummer Weasel Walter Upcoming Live Tour Dates in U.S. and Europe

Source: ugEXPLODE
January 29, 2009

Hyperactive free jazz drummer Weasel Walter will be spreading his intense style of spontaneous musical interaction in many venues across the U.S. and Europe this spring in the company of many notable improvisers like Evan Parker, Peter Evans, Mary Halvorson and Marco Eneidi. His upcoming release out March 15, 2009 is a trio record with West Coast guitar legend Henry Kaiser and bassist Damon Smith featuring some of the most extreme Kaiser playing in decades--half Sharrock/Takayanagi electronic bombast, the other ...

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Charmaine Ford Trio @ Baycourt Theatre in Tauranga On April 11

Source: All About Jazz
January 29, 2009

Charmaine Ford, the “rising star of NZ jazz piano” (The Dominion Post), returns to her hometown of Tauranga to treat us to her “spellbinding virtuosity” (Bay of Plenty Times). Now based in Sydney building her international jazz career, Charmaine won the 2007 Jazz Tui Award for Best Jazz Album for her sophomore release Busy Silence and has just released her third album.

In this concert, she will also introduce us to the sensational Australian vocalist Kristin Berardi, winner of the ...

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Ray Lamontagne Tour

Source: JamBase
January 29, 2009

RAY LAMONTAGNE ANNOUNCES FIRST NORTH AMERICAN TOUR DATES OF 2009 Touring In Support Of Top 5 Album Gossip In The Grain

Ray LaMontagne Ray LaMontagne announced his first North American tour dates of 2009 today, starting April 2 at the Wellmont Theater in Montclair, NJ and ending April 30 in Miami, FL at The Fillmore at The Jackie Gleason Theater. The tour is LaMontagne's second in support of his latest album Gossip In The Grain, which achieved the ...

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Mark Mullins & Jimmy Robinson at the Carrollton Station in New Orleans on January 30th

Source: All About Jazz
January 28, 2009

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Vibrato Grill Jazz...Etc. Present Corky Hale and Her Jazz Trio

Source: All About Jazz
January 28, 2009

Vibrato Grill JazzEtc. Presents

CORKY HALE, Jazz Pianist, Harpist and Vocalist and Her Jazz Trio Featuring Jazz Guitarist, JOHN CHIODINI

Vibrato Grill JazzEtc. 2930 N. Beverly Glen Circle; Bel Air, CA 90077-1724 Sunday, March 1, 2009 from 6:30 9:30 p.m.

“More than a triple threat!" --The Los Angeles Times

“A musical tornado. A performance of cyclonic proportions!" --San Francisco Examiner

“Jazz harpist/pianist Corky Hale is a considerable talent! Hale proves the harp can swing...Hales harp is ...

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Al Di Meola U.S. Tour

Source: JamBase
January 28, 2009

Al Di Meola and World Sinfonia kick off “Spectacular" U.S. Tour

Al Di Meola Legendary jazz guitarist Al Di Meola and his new band, World Sinfonia, kicked off their nationwide tour January 9 in Pittsburgh, PA, to a sold-out crowd. Playing songs from Live in Milano, the romantic album that perfectly captures the new group's tango-influenced sound, which is heavily influenced by the late master of that genre, Astor Piazzolla, critics have fallen in love with the band wherever it ...

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